Switzerland Movies

Refusing to die in the hospital, an old man gets on his scooter and heads to the mountain where, as a child, his grandfather used to take him to look for fossils. Reluctantly, his son sets off in pursuit.

A small family of shrews, made up of a grandmother, a mother and her three children, lives on the edge of a stream. One day, heavy rains fell, breaking the old dam upstream. Fortunately, the family members are all safe, but their house is totally destroyed. Fo...

When Leila discovers at her sister Amanda's wedding that the latter is pregnant, she promptly reveals the carefully guarded secret. While the guests are happy, Amanda worries about her career and Leila about her fertility. Panic-stricken, Leila sets herself a...

“The surface of a thing is not part of it. Thus the surface of water does not form part of the water, nor does it consequently form part of the atmosphere. Then what divides water from air?” To Leonardo da Vinci’s question, the poet Daniil Charms answered: "Th...

Antoine is at the wheel of a car with an unconscious boy beside him. Throughout the night, he has to contend with the storm threatening the mountain top.

In the heart of Russia, the city of Magnitogorsk is home to the Kombinat, one of the largest iron and steel factory in the country. Here, Gabriel Tejedor films the day-to-day lives of Lena, Sasha, Guenia and their families, while this new generation of young p...

Documentary film.

War mobilization in 1939: the clumsy Läppli, a loudmouth and busybody, is imprisoned for anti-military speeches. When he is later promoted to officer's orderly, he continues his mischievous behavior. He acts without suspicion, comes across as slightly dim-witt...

Film tells the story of how Switzerland came into being - albeit in a slightly different way to the historical circumstances we have known up to now: William Tell proves himself a national hero against his will in the midst of the comic chaos of court intrigue...

High on the Diablerets massif, the cable car unloads skiers. On the other side of the mountain, in a kind of mirror image, silence prevails, along with the quiet, hidden life of Derborence's wildlife.

A teenager together with her little brother are sent to their mother for the summer, but there are complications when she goes to a nearby beach.

When an unmarried and childless funeral director searches for relatives of a man who died in solitude, she becomes aware of her own longing.

A prison cell is set up in an empty room on the edge of Paris. Three former political prisoners from Iran re-enact how they were once interrogated and tortured. With quiet scepticism, the film asks whether their experiences can be accessed in this way.

A loser for whom everything always goes wrong finds purpose in life when an entity claiming to be an angel begins ordering him to smite sinners.

Through a purely conceptual, poetic exercise imbued with subtle irony, the short film explores and deconstructs the routines, daily tensions, and habitual dynamics of cohabitation and roles within the home. Using the fluid movement of grains of sand on a light...

Figures that inhabit a world of escalators pursue their desire to consume at a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room where it joins a playing group. Meanwhile, the escalator world...

Hausarrest tells the story of Max, who was sentenced to house arrest for six months. An ankle monitor called Percy assists him during his arrest. But one day he realizes with horror how far Percy goes in its function.

Every two to three days, a person commits suicide on Switzerland’s 3000 kilometer railroad network. Retired train driver Kurt Spori reflects on how he managed to deal with the severe trauma of train suicides, from which many of his former colleagues have never...